Joshua Whitfield
November 27, 2019
As a priest, part of my gig is listening to people tell me their sins.
November 3, 2019
Religion is not in decline, though such are the headlines.
September 1, 2019
No better in our politics than primitives, we still invoke the gods.
August 11, 2019
Rodrigo’s son is Adrian. Adrian is disabled. Rodrigo works three jobs to pay for his care. Rodrigo brought Adrian from Peru to the United States 15 years ago, so he’d receive the best care possible, so he could live. Because Rodrigo loves Adrian, a father and a son.
July 27, 2019
Preaching to children belongs to the work of the priest.
October 6, 2024
Of course, the Lord’s words in today’s gospel are difficult to hear.
September 29, 2024
To be a Christian, to be moral at all: it requires that you have the capacity to see.
September 8, 2024
The passage from Isaiah and the passage from Mark, put together as they are today, mean to tell us something.
September 1, 2024
It’s good to wash your hands; cleanliness is good. To wash your hands engaged in divine worship, that’s good too. The Pharisees here were not altogether wrong; your mother wasn’t wrong when she told you to wash your hands. The disciples didn’t wash their hands. Maybe they should have. I wash my hands before Mass, before […]
August 4, 2024
What surprises me each time I read it is what they said to him, what they asked him: “Sir, give us this bread always.”[1]
July 28, 2024
Speaking of Moses and the manna given in the desert all those years ago, Jesus said, “You know, the bread your fathers ate in the desert didn’t last. They all died.”[1] It was, although miraculously delivered, just ordinary bread. And then he began to speak about his heavenly Father and the bread that he gives—not ordinary […]